Changeling's Winter Masques and World of Darkness: Changing Breeds In Stores Now

Two intriguing new releases from White Wolf have just emerged into the realm of buyability—Winter Masques, a supplement for Changeling: the Lost, and World of Darkness: Changing Breeds, a supplement for the main World of Darkness game.

Autumn Nightmares was the book about antagonists—Winter Masques is the book about the Changelings themselves. Extended information on the seemings, new Contract lists, details on roleplaying and further customizations, 41 (!) new Kiths, 6 new Courts and three new Entitlements—all this and more is to be found in Winter Masques.

Changing Breeds, of course, is another beast entirely. (Hahaha.) In the old World of Darkness, just off the top of my head, the changing breeds were werecreatures you could play that weren't werewolves and included Nuwisha (coyotes), Mokolé (lizards), Rokea (sharks/douchebags), Bastet (cats), Naga (snakes), Ratkin (rats), and others (like werebears and werespiders, the fancy name for which I have forgotten). Well now a similar sort of array of things has been brought to the new World of Darkness—this book contains "complete rules and insightful advice for creating shapechanging characters of any breed, suitable for Storytellers and players alike," breeds such as "catlike Bastet, the cunning feathered Corvians and the mysterious Oceanborn." Given my bad experiences with changing breeds in the past, this book will need to be a wonder to impress me—but who knows? White Wolf's been pretty damn good as of late.